It’s Christmas ornament time again. I’ll be making quite a few this year, including a dozen or more of these little dogs.

Like most of my little dogs, this one is just a little over two inches tall. The wood is mesquite. The hat, nose, and tongue are painted with acrylics and the entire piece is finished with Howard Feed ‘N Wax (a mixture of orange oil and beeswax).

This particular dog is the prototype. It should have a little metal loop at the top so it can hang from the tree, but I didn’t drill the pilot hole deep enough and the brass screw eye I tried to insert broke off. I’ll be sure to drill a deeper hole in the rest of them.